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The game is designed to emulate the prose. The prose is important to the game design. It’s far from irrelevant.

Is fun.

This. And 5e works fine if you don’t worry about balanced encounters.

I received my copy a few days ago and have skimmed through the adventures to get their pulse before reading everything cover to cover. I...

If the fights are about expending resources, then the players cannot “lose” the individual fights. However, they can consume too many...

It had nothing whatsoever to do with resources (Beowulf didn’t use any). Beowulf did not fight the second monster because it didn’t...

2) is about genre emulation, 3) is about game pacing and fun. But they aren’t completely unconnected, true.

Nether of those are the correct reasons. 1) common sense aversion to a death spiral. No one goes into danger when they are exhausted -...

I cast fireball to investigate how many hit points they have.

He is a very good Method actor.

It often is.

Or how deep your roots are. I moved around a fair bit and had several jobs, virtually living out of a suitcase for a period of my life.

It sounds like "future-proofing" to me. Not only compile a one shop lore resource, but to make it so that it can be amended as needed...

You are vastly underestimating the variety of playstyles, and the difficulty for an outsider to understand and communicate them. exactly...

You realise that there is a lot of overlap between these categories? The people designing games are the same people who you find...